Google added a number of AI, Gemini-powered, features to Google Maps including new search features, review summaries for place listings and a way to ask about a specific business listing where AI will give you answers. Plus, Google said that more than 2 billion users use Google Maps, which was actually announced by Google’s CEO, … Read more
Microsoft has added a new guideline to its Bing Webmaster Guidelines named “prompt injection.” This is to cover the abuse and attack of language ****** by websites and webpages. Prompt injection guideline. The new guideline was posted at the bottom of the current Bing Webmaster Guidelines. It reads: Prompt injection: Do not add content on … Read more
In pursuit of “maximizing the power of search intent,” Microsoft Advertising revised its multi-channel strategy in February. However, not all advertisers have seen a welcome change to their account performance. Learn how the mandatory Audience Network expansion impacted this software company, which saw 26% of its budget spent with no added conversions or performance benefits. … Read more
Wix now supports IndexNow, the Microsoft initiative to make indexing more efficient and faster. With that, Microsoft said, “more than 60 million websites are publishing over 1.4 billion URLs per day to the IndexNow API.” This is turned on by default, there is nothing Wix customers need to do. We recently spoke to Fabrice Canel … Read more
May 1, 2014 | Posted by Rank Ranger Since the launch of our Landing Page Performance Report in February, many of you have let us know just how important landing page metrics are to you! So we’re now excited to announce that Social Signals and Backlink Landing Page Metrics have been added to … Read more
Google has updated the help document for file types indexable by Google to include Comma-Separated Values (.csv) in the list. I doubt Google was not bale to index those files before, and I wonder if this was just a documentation change but not a change in what Google was able to index? The help document … Read more
December 15, 2014 | Posted by Rank Ranger Several months ago Google emphasized the importance of switching a site to HTTPS for many reasons, including a possible ranking boost. So are they serving your HTTPS URLs in the SERPs? Check your Rank Tracker Dashboard for a special SERP icon to find out. … Read more
August 20, 2015 | Posted by Joel Janovsky Google’s goal of improving user experience shines through with many of the latest features they’ve added to search results. Since knowing if your SERP listing includes these special features, we’ve added 4 new SERP Icons to the Dashboard report: Answer Box, Breadcrumbs, Notable Online and Search … Read more
March 31, 2016 | Posted by Rank Ranger Which keywords are ranking for a landing page that’s scoring special Google SERP Indicators and which search indicators are displaying for that landing page – local, ratings, images thumbnails, search box, etc.? The addition of our new SERP Indicators Filter to the Rank Tracker Dashboard … Read more
June 6, 2016 | Posted by Shay Harel As June rolled in and May ebbed away the SERP continued to change, evolve, and serve as Google’s guinea pig. In this SERP Snapshot we have the distinct honor of welcoming in the month of June and saying goodbye to dear ‘ol May. In what … Read more
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